bodying
Making physically present
Bodying is slang for defeating or humiliating someone so thoroughly it's as if you've destroyed their physical form.
Common in hip-hop and gaming culture: He got bodied in that rap battle, Our team bodied them 5-0.
The term suggests dominance—not just winning but making the opponent look foolish or outmatched.
Attributing human qualities
- representingActing as proxy for
- epitomizingRepresenting the ideal form
- incarnatingTaking bodily form
- exemplifyingServing as ideal instance
manifesting · typifying · symbolizing · actualizing · expressing · capturing · channeling · conveying
Bodily structure and form
- formShape or document
- fleshSoft body matter
- figureOutline or numeral
- anatomyStudy of organism structure
musculature · frame · build · torso · corporeal · tangible · physical · substance
Doing better than others
- crushingOverwhelming in intensity
- destroyingCausing complete ruin
- defeatingOvercoming in competition
- overpoweringToo intense to withstand
demolishing · annihilating · humiliating · schooling · wrecking · owning · dunking · steamrolling
Moving limbs expressively
- posturingInsincere behavior for effect
- movingEmotionally affecting
- dancingRhythmic bodily motion
- performingExecuting an action
emoting · communicating · signaling · conveying · demonstrating · miming · animating · articulating
personifying
Attributing human qualities
- representingActing as proxy for
- epitomizingRepresenting the ideal form
- incarnatingTaking bodily form
exemplifying · manifesting · typifying · symbolizing · actualizing · expressing · capturing · channeling · conveying · demonstrating
physique
Bodily structure and form
anatomy · musculature · frame · build · torso · corporeal · tangible · physical · substance · mass
outperforming
Doing better than others
- crushingOverwhelming in intensity
- destroyingCausing complete ruin
- defeatingOvercoming in competition
overpowering · demolishing · annihilating · humiliating · schooling · wrecking · owning · dunking · steamrolling · dominating
gesturing
Moving limbs expressively
performing · emoting · communicating · signaling · conveying · demonstrating · miming · animating · articulating · projecting
- wood finishingshellac, lacquer, varnish, wax, oil finish
bodyingdisembodying
Freeing from physical form
dematerializing · abstracting · spiritualizing · unforming · dissolving
body, bodily, embody, bodyguard, bodies, embodiment, bodied, embodied, disembodied